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I was preparing to write a preview of CyanogenMod 6 (CM6) before it became officially released. But alas, by the time I got around to it, CM6 is now officially released. The pre-release alphas, release candidates and nightly ...
Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
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I have unintentionally become an expert at installing and reinstalling Windows. It’s Windows XP this time. This is my third Windows XP installation in two days, before I finally got a problematic program running ...
Who Owns My Phone?
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It’s a tussle between individuals and the wishes of business organizations wanting to protect their data. The “problem”, is that phones nowadays are so powerful, so ubiquitous, and used so much for personal and ...
Inertia Scrolling Comes to the MBP
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Apple’s just-released Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update 1.0 finally brings inertia scrolling to recent models of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. Inertia scrolling, if you don’t know about it, is the feature ...
Google’s Confused About Where I Am
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For about a week now, Google Maps has been rather confused about where I am. It fixes me at a specific spot in Bukit Batok, when in reality I’m like 10km away, in an area also wrongly labeled as Pulau Bukom in the zoomed ...
PCs and Viruses
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Sometimes, I think we’re doomed. Our IT, our cyberspace, they all belong to hackers. Hackers of the bad sort. The world is at their mercy. It’s one thing for the layman to be lost and give up in defeat. But it’s ...
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I’ve been struggling to build CyanogenMod ROM from source for my Nexus One. It’s actually not very difficult once you’ve figured out how to do it. That’s the biggest hurdle: figuring out how to do it, ...
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So say crisis communication experts, Professor Matthew Seeger and Chris Lehane, quoted by mainstream Consumer Reports. The widespread complaints about the iPhone 4 antenna problems were confirmed in a lab experiment by Consumer ...
Screws on the MacBook Pro
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There are 10 screws on the underside of the MacBook Pro. These screws hold the bottom cover that upon removal, reveals the battery and hard disk. For some time now, there is this little screw in the corner that has been causing ...
Frozen Yogurt in My Phone
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No, it’s not the dessert. Well, actually it is, but it isn’t the real thing. So there’s nothing to worry about. I suppose only Android users will understand what I’m talking about.
Yes, that means ...